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Scrypt (by Wikipadia) In cryptography, scrypt is a password-based key derivation function created by Colin Percival, originally for the Tarsnap online backup service. The algorithm was specifically designed to make it costly to perform large-scale custom hardware attacks by requiring large amounts of memory. In 2012, the scrypt algorithm was published by IETF as an Internet Draft, intended to become an informational RFC. A simplified version of scrypt is used as a proof-of-work scheme by a number of cryptocurrencies first implemented by an anonymous programmer called ArtForz in Tenebrix followed by Fairbrix and Litecoin soon.

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A password-based key derivation function (password-based KDF) is generally designed to be computationally intensive, so that it takes a relatively long time to compute (say on the order of several hundred milliseconds). Legitimate users only need to perform the function once per operation (e.g., authentication), and so the time required is negligible. However, a brute-force attack would likely need to perform the operation billions of times, at which point the time requirements become significant and, ideally, prohibitive.

Previous password-based KDFs (such as the popular PBKDF2 from RSA Laboratories) have relatively low resource demands, meaning they do not require elaborate hardware or very much memory to perform. They are therefore easily and cheaply implemented in hardware (for instance on an ASIC or even an FPGA). This allows an attacker with sufficient resources to launch a large-scale parallel attack by building hundreds or even thousands of implementations of the algorithm in hardware and having each search a different subset of the key space. This divides the amount of time needed to complete a brute-force attack by the number of implementations available, very possibly bringing it down to a reasonable time frame.

The scrypt function is designed to hinder such attempts by raising the resource demands of the algorithm. Specifically, the algorithm is designed to use a large amount of memory compared to other password-based KDFs, making the size and the cost of a hardware implementation much more expensive, and therefore limiting the amount of parallelism an attacker can use, for a given amount of financial resources.

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The CEO of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by means of traded volume – Binance, holds that the current state of the market is undervalued. Cryptocurrency Bear Market a Stretch Speaking at the Binance Blockchain Week in Singapore, the CEO of Binance, Changpeng Zhao, shared his thoughts on the current state of the industry. According... The post Binance CEO Thinks the Cryptocurrency Market is Undervalued appeared first on Live Bitcoin News. [READ MORE]

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Ripple price remained below the key $0.3400 and $0.3450 resistance levels against the US dollar. There was a break below a major contracting triangle with support at $0.3245 on the 4-hours chart of the XRP/USD pair (data source from Poloniex). The pair is currently trading well below the $0.3320 support and it remains at a... The post Ripple Price Analysis: XRP At Risk Of Significant Losses appeared first on Live Bitcoin News. [READ MORE]

A Bitcoin ATM company based in the US has announced a partnership with a major multi-national coin-counting company to enable users to buy Bitcoin (BTC) at thousands of kiosks in different stores. Buy Bitcoin at Your Local Grocery Store Coinme – reportedly the first blockchain-oriented state-licensed Bitcoin ATM operator in the US has announced a... The post Buy Bitcoin at Thousands of Stores at Coinstar Kiosks appeared first on Live Bitcoin News. [READ MORE]

Thailand’s Stock Exchange (SET) is reportedly planning to apply for a digital asset operating license. If granted by the country’s Finance Ministry, the license will see the SET becoming an authorized digital asset exchange. SET Eying a Digital Asset License According to a report from the Bangkok Post, SET intends to apply to the country;’s Finance Ministry in... The post Thailand’s Stock Exchange Eyeing a Digital Asset License appeared first on Live Bitcoin News. [READ MORE]

Bitcoin cash price extended declines recently and broke the $140 support level against the US Dollar. There is a crucial bearish trend line in place with resistance at $135 on the 4-hours chart of the BCH/USD pair (data feed from Kraken). The pair is positioned for the next major move either above $135 or below... The post Bitcoin Cash (BCH) Near Crucial Juncture, Can Buyers Gain Momentum? appeared first on Live Bitcoin News. [READ MORE]

ADA price corrected lower and found support near the $0.0400 level against the US Dollar. There is a major bullish trend line formed with support at $0.0415 on the 4-hours chart (data feed via Kraken). The price is trading with a positive bias and it may continue to grind towards $0.0480 or $0.0500. Cardano price... The post Cardano (ADA) Remains Bullish, Could Revisit $0.0500 appeared first on Live Bitcoin News. [READ MORE]

If you’re a fluent or native speaker of a language other than English, this blog post will help you learn how to get started translating Bitcoin.org so that more people around the world who speak your language can learn about Bitcoin. Thank you to Simon AKA “Komodorpudel” for preparing content to help organize this post. Getting Started with the Translation Team Translations for Bitcoin.org are done on a website called Transifex. Basic instructions for how Transifex works can be found here. Belo [READ MORE]

Bitcoin.org, registered August 18, 2008 This month marks 10 years since the bitcoin.org domain was registered. Bitcoin.org was originally registered and owned by Bitcoin’s first two developers, Satoshi Nakamoto and Martti Malmi. When Satoshi left the project, he gave ownership of the domain to additional people, separate from the Bitcoin developers, to spread responsibility and prevent any one person or group from easily gaining control over the Bitcoin project. Bitcoin.org’s code is open source [READ MORE]

Supporting Sponsorship from Paxful Paxful, a leading P2P exchange that helps people buy bitcoin, has become a supporting sponsor of Bitcoin.org. Since the Bitcoin Foundation sponsorship ended in 2015, Bitcoin.org has been self-funded by the domain owners and by community donations. This quarterly supporting sponsorship (which can potentially be renewed) will help bolster and catalyze several efforts: Achieving 100% translation coverage across the site, including the developer documentation Expan [READ MORE]

The bitcoin alert keys are disclosed in this blog post, followed by a description of the purpose of this information and its history. The bitcoin alert system has been completely retired. The network is not at risk and this warning may be safely ignored if you do not have an ancient node (running v0.12.x or older) using the deprecated bitcoin alert system or its public keys. mainnet public key: 04fc9702847840aaf195de8442ebecedf5b095cdbb9bc716bda9110971b28a49e0ead8564ff0db22209e0374782c093bb89969 [READ MORE]